Compounding Stress: The Timing and Duration Effects of Homelessness on Children’s Health

Author(s): Megan Sandel MD, MPH, Richard Sheward, MPP, and Lisa Sturtevant, PhD
Published in: Compounding Stress: The Timing and Duration Effects of Homelessness on Children’s Health

New research from Children’s Health Watch highlighted in a joint report with the Center for Housing Policy at the National Housing Conference shows the younger and longer a child experiences homelessness, the greater the cumulative toll of negative health outcomes, which can have lifelong effects on the child, the family and the community.

Search the Research Database